Buffy - The Vampire Slayer (The complete series collection)

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The hope is that the current version of Buffy airing is a test run for a future proper re-release, with these problems fixed and cleared up. There is some evidence that this might be the case: The X-Files has been airing in HD on a German network and also on the El Rey network in the USA and apparently early problems with the remastering have been fixed in later airings of the same episodes, so hopefully the same will be true for Buffy. So, in a show where several major characters are vampires who catch fire when exposed to sunlight, you can’t convert the original footage into high-definition footage and then not carry out the color grading work that, say, keeps Angel in the dark rather than lying beneath Buffy’s window in full sunlight. When Buffy started in the 1990s, the first two seasons were shot on 16mm film and everything thereafter on 35mm. Even though extensive post-production work is required, it’s fairly suitable for a big restoration like those that other popular shows have got, so where are the Blu-rays?

If Fox spent the money to do this right like CBS/Paramount did with Star Trek: TOS and Star Trek: TNG and Fox did with the perfect The X-Files Blu-Ray then Buffy would look amazing in HD. The problem is just bad decision making and poor effort, Joss Whedon himself needs to find a way to take charge of this project and redo it all from scratch so that it can be kept to the original filmmakers vision. Above all, what it comes down to is this: Buffy is a long show. 144 episodes would have be transferred from film (which is far from an automatic process, it's actually quite labor intensive), effects need to be done from scratch, and even if they do it by starting with the first season and seeing if it sells before they try to sell more... well, Season 1 looks bad. The biggest problem with how it looks is more about the lighting setup than anything else, but that is definitely a consideration, and it'll be very difficult, if it's even possible, to make that season look good on Blu-ray, so it might not sell well because of how it looks. Overall, it's too much to try without a crazy-devoted fanbase.

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That's where the good news abruptly halts. As the above video shows, they've also made a huge number of mistakes and introduced a large number of problems to the series, most of them resulting from poor editing. general, and Whedon's often outré combination of cheeky humor and gory horror in particular. I mentioned in my Miracle on 34th Street Blu-ray review how that film deserved a more loving There’s an adage in fandom that tells us “the memory cheats.” Coined by Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner in the 1980s, it refers to a kind of Mandela Effect where we improve TV episodes we haven’t seen in a while in our heads. But in the age of DVD and Blu-ray, these shows are now available for posterity. Some of them have even been upscaled for glorious but utterly unforgiving high-definition formats.

As with certain releases in the DVD range (some will still shudder at the very mention of a spanner), there are optional improved special effects on these upscaled stories, but as far as classic Doctor Who goes, the idea is to faithfully represent the show on home media, whether through the episodes themselves or the newly produced documentaries and other features.Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. All of this adds up to a fairly cheap and nasty-looking version of the show that not only disregards the producers’ original intentions but also undermines itself by creating brand-new production and continuity errors that never existed in standard definition.

I'm aware of all the 4x3 and 16x9 issues with this show and season 1 of Angel. I am a filmmaker myself, so I'm always all for staying true to the original creator's intentions. HOWEVER: I've got the UK import DVDs and the show looks really really good in 16:9. There are a few moments that don't work, sure. I remember a dolly-in shot on Willow in the first episode of season 6 has some equipment in the 16x9 sides. And I think there is one or two other unintended things like this that pop up in a few episodes. Buffeted by the changing home entertainment market at the time of their release, the remastered Next Generation episodes have also popped up on Netflix in recent years. it’s likely to be the last project that we ever see on this scale. With the growing emphasis on streaming television, projects as impressive as this are unlikely to be seen as profitable. Who knows Even without this problem, there’s stuff where sunset scenes (like the famous one in the season three opener “Anne”) look like they take place in the middle of the day. Moreover, there’s a weird tint to all the daytime and exterior scenes that belies the absence of post-production that took place on the original standard definition version. Note that the video was also shared by Kristine Sutherland (Joyce Summers), James C. Leary (Clem), David Fury, Tim Minear (producer, writer and director on "Angel" the TV show) and Nancy Holder (writer).Even with the issues, I felt that the HD versions were a revelation. The clarity was amazing, I noticed details I've never seen before. It's not perfect, but it is much more enjoyable than SD. When Netflix dropped Buffy I was in Season 6 and had to essentially suffer through Hulu's Seasons 6 and 7 in SD and let me tell you the difference was glaring!